A young medic took his own life two days after his family told him to find a "cure" for his sexuality, his devastated fiance has told Sky News.

Matt Ogston said he moved from Birmingham to London to live openly with his partner of 13 years, Nazim Mahmood, who feared there would be "catastrophic" consequences if his family found out he was gay.

But during a trip home to celebrate Eid in July, Dr Mahmood was confronted by his mother and felt forced to tell her he was planning to marry a man.

Mr Ogston said: "The reaction was underwhelming and also surprising - the reaction was to basically ask him to see a psychiatrist to find a cure.

"When he asked 'why do I need to find a cure, there's nothing wrong with me, I'm just a good person trying to live a good life,' that must have created such a sadness within Naz.

"I only wish I'd had longer to have spoken to Naz, to try and talk things through and just tell him it would be okay."

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Dr Mahmood, 34, who ran a successful clinic offering cosmetic treatments, died after falling from the balcony of his fourth floor penthouse flat on 30 July.

The Shrien Dewani case shone a spotlight on one of the last taboos for many members of Britain's Asian communities - homosexuality.

The subject is rarely talked about and coming out is extremely difficult in most cases, and impossible in others.

In extreme cases gay Asian men and women face violence, or even death.

'H' comes from a wealthy, middle class family from a big town in Pakistan.

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While he was still at college he was outed by a member of his extended family.

The reaction was predictably violent. 'H' was given a choice: exorcism or death.

"They take a stick and they burn it on your hands and parts of your body," he said.

"And you scream. And they think the demons are leaving your body. That happened to me several times."

'H' lied to live. He said the painful exorcisms had "cured" him, but his lover refused to renounce his homosexuality.

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He was beaten to death by his own father. 'H' heard the screams for help.